"Contesting "Transition
The U.S. Plan for a “Free Cuba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Anderson (0000-0002-1116-3839, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 28-46 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x05281112 |
| OpenAlex | W1983140167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The contradictions of U.S.-Cuba relations have rarely been more intense. The pattern of siege and resistance continues, the U.S. imperial project of remodeling Cuba faces new constraints, and a transition of sorts, conditioned by U.S. engagement but not determined by U.S. policy, is already occurring. Having snubbed the United Nations in its invasion of Iraq and while holding several hundred prisoners in its Guantainamo Bay base without charge or trial, the United States pretends concern for the rights of prisoners by denouncing Cuba's jailing of 75 dissidents, and while it announces a package of economic sanctions aimed at overthrowing the Cuban system, U.S. exports to Cuba have skyrocketed. In 2004 the CBS News journalist Pamela Falk remarked that sales to Cuba by U.S. farmers grow dramatically despite increased tension between Washington and Havana. The U.S. businessman Kirby Jones confirmed this: We have six months of the hottest rhetoric in my experience ... but here [in Havana] we have 400-plus breadbasket representatives, a Republican Congressman, a former F16 pilot, and farmers from all over America, essentially saying 'We don't agree with this policy' (Siegelbaum, 2004). Whereas in Iraq the United States invaded and overthrew the Iraqi government before lifting economic sanctions and sending in its big companies, in Cuba U.S. companies are arriving while economic sanctions are supposedly being tightened. Yet commercial links are just one part of the story at a time when the Bush administration has declared its right to carry out preemptive attacks against a large number of countries. The situation is precarious and dangerous. In ominous echoes of the build-up to the Iraq war, the U.S. accuses Cuba (without evidence) of developing biological weapons. What is going on, and what is behind the rhetoric? This article will examine new contradictions in the U.S. language of freedom over Cuba, some new developments in its near half-century of economic siege and destabilization, and the new problems faced by U.S. arguments for a postsocialist transition in Cuba
Administration (probate law) · Ancient history · Economic history · Economic sanctions · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Rhetoric · Sanctions · Siege · Cuban History and Society · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |